Monday, December 22, 2008

Well I haven't been able to get a hold of the first person for the RAK so I had my kids pick another name today.

The winner is....

Gojenlaw please email me so I can send you the RAK!!

Also I finally made a chipboard wall hanging thanks to the challenge on Tara's blog. I have wanted to make one for my living room for months. Seriously months and just never got a round to actually doing it.

Its right by my front door and it was a spot that so needed a small altered piece. I hung the piece already and took the pic. Yes my wall in the living room is orange. Thanks for the challenge Tara!!

Saturday, December 6, 2008

In the beginning of the year my goal was to complete 250 layouts this year. After my DH hurt his back in Sept I knew I wasn't going to be able to meet that goal so I revised my goal to 200 layouts and I made my goal this weekend while working on some crop challenges over at scrap 4 life. I'm so excited to have made my goal. So much so that I have decided to give away a RAK. If you would like to win the RAK just comment on this post.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Create a layout inspired by a cartoon. This was easy I just went thru some of the Disney pics I had and picked out some I wanted to work with. So I picked these photos of Al of Al's Toy Barn from the Toy Story movie. This is when we were waiting in line to take pics with Buzz and Woody.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Well I hadn't scrapped in a week and when I read the challenge I said no I won't do that one. When I went to my scrap table and started to look thru my pics I saw these and thought these pics would work great for the challenge. Use the game Tic Tac Toe as inspiration.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

This was inspired by Nancy Drew Books. The journaling reads "Cameron's feet don't reach the pedals, so he uses his tip toes to push himself. He goes slow, but he has fun "riding" his bike and that is the important part." The gears are from Riff Raff Designs and I inked them black and silver. Want to check out the challenge and possibly win a prize its here

Friday, October 10, 2008

Of course there were tons of websites with challenges all weekend. I made over 30 cards. That is more cards than I have made ALL year and I did it in 3 days. I was VERY proud of myself. Plus most of the cards I sent off to Cards for Hereos, its for soldiers to send cards home to family and friends. I felt great sending that stuffed envelope off to mail too.

Here are just a couple of cards I made. On Sunday My DH asked me to make a card to send to his mom who lives in Hawaii I laughed and said no problem I'm already making some cards give me a little while and I whipped this one up.

Have to have a halloween card so here it is, made a couple more too.

Have Thanksgiving covered now too. Saved this one to send to family.

I actually already had the star cut out of the notebook paper in my scrap pile and it worked great for this card.

This next one is super simple, but I LOVE it. Couldn't give this one away sorry troops.

Only made 1 christmas card. Now I'm up to 2 done.

You always need some Thank you cards so here's one.

And Finally a 4th of July themed one. A little far off but time flies by so quick it will be here before we know it.

Monday, September 1, 2008

I got to work with the great Making Memories Passport line plus of course some other items as well. The kit was from Keep in Touch and it was the Big & Juicy kit but for Making Memories for You. Feel free to click on any of the pics to get a better view. The first layout I completed I wanted to NOT do a travel page so here it is "I need some Rest". Its my DS just taking a nap on the chair.

Next I made a card "Enjoy the Adventure" I used these Making Memories travel transperencies for the title.

Now the really big project was the Altered Portfolio from 7Gypsies. I am not a big altered person so I thought about this for DAYS before starting to tackle this project. I decided I would do my pictures from Hawaii in 2000. The first photo is the closed cover.

The second photo is with the cover flap open and revealing the entire front cover.

This is the inside of the front cover. I didn't do the journaling yet, but I will soon.

There is a flap on the top of the middle section and a flap on the bottom as well. The seal photo is on the top. The flower is the bottom flap.

The top photo is part of the top flap. Then the main page & the flower photo at the bottom is the other side of the bottom flap. The bird photos (from the second photo)is the outside flap.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

I scrapped, of courseWas on the computer checking out scrapping MBWrote an article for a scrapbook magjumped on the trampolinewatched the kids play on the slip n slide and in a pirate poolwent out to dinner with a friendWent to movies with kids and saw WallEWent to movies without kids and saw What happens in VegasHad 5 birthday cakesWent to a moving out of State get togetherHad a barbquewas obsessed with watching the OlympicsWent to Farmers MarketLet kids play in the water at city centerCaught up with an old friend from high schoolHad a Garage Sale

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

in the scrapgoods contest. I'm so excited. This week the challenge was not a square LO, use a bird, and buttons. I'm not a big bird person so I went with the nature theme so the bird would work for me. I love how this came out. Can't wait for the announcement on Thursday I hope I move on to the next round. The photo is a flower I took on a walk in our neighborhood.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

OMG!!!! I am so excited I found out I just made my first DT!!!! I am so proud to be chosen and can't wait to get started. My post starts Sept 1 and I will be working with a fantastic team of ladies!!! You can check it out at Making Memories For You! I hope to see some of you ladies there its a terrific site.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

I received 2 RAKs this week. I just love scrappy mail. The one was a set of Alphabet stamps and the other was sayings stamps ex. Greetings, Happy bday and more. Thanks ladies they are both great!!! I already used one already!

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

OK Ladies I made a scrappy goal at the beginning of the year (first year I have done this). What was my goal you ask??? To make 250 layouts, at least 1 card and a mini album and an altered item. So I've made about 10 cards, a mini album, some altered letters (kids initals) and last night I completed 125 layouts, YEAH!!!!! So I am half way to my goal and its only a few days past the middle of the year. So I'm happy with my progress so I decided to do a RAK to celebrate. To enter all you need to do is leave a comment on this post! I will leave it open til Sunday. Good Luck ladies!!! Want to see the halfway layout. I did this for a challenge -Surprise, Surprise right. The challenge was use I believe in your title. So I did a xmas LO around 4th of July, the two holidays are VERY opposite!! LOL!

Monday, July 7, 2008

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Check out this great site, Making Memories for You that just started a new point system! When you sign up make sure you let everyone know that I referred you. Welcome to MMFY$ Point system

We will have a point system starting today called MMFY$(MONEY).Every DT challenge, game, etc that has a $ sign on its SUBJECT gives you a chance to earn MMFY money. At the end of the month, the member with the most money wins a prize. You will have all month to complete the challenges, and they must be linked back to the thread associated with them by Midnight. end of month or midnight the date selected that its due.

You will have to keep track of what challenges, games etc you complete. BONUS DOLLARS:We will offer MMFY$10 extra for putting links about this everywhere you can. BLOGS, other forums etc. and pm"ing me not posting it on the board to let me know where you did this. And for every member that brings a member who stays for 1 full month and you BOTH complete at least 3 challenges BOTH you and your friend receive $10 extra MMFY$

This will start July 1st, keep track in your siggy when a DT or myself tell you that you have earned $$

WHAT YOU WILL WINat the end of the month whoever has the highest $$ will be the winner.In case of ties of $$ amount your names will be throw in a drawing and that person selected will earn a Gift Certificate from the Shoppe Each DT member and myself will donate $5.00 towards the total of your gift certificate

Monday, June 30, 2008

OK There was an online crop at Scrapperie this weekend. I had a garage sale I was planning for, got rained out, had friends over Saturday because they were going to be selling stuff at the garage sale too, but ended up getting quite a few layouts done. I was happy with as much as I got done. Still have today to finish up, but have more company coming from out of state so hopefully I will be able to get at least one more done.

This was from the sketch challenge from Ally from SO Sketchy. My DS is looking through the binoculars the wrong way.

This challenge was a monochromatic challenge. If it was a pic of a girl layout must be blue. If it was a pic of a boy layout must be pink. I figured it would be less tramatic for my kids to do the girl page.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

I just found this great Magazine blog. The mag is called Scrapbook & cards Today. You can check out the mag online as well, sooo cool. Congrats to Ally who is the editor of the blog. Looks like they have a ton of great stuff going on. Don't forget to leave them a comment so you can win. You can check it here

Friday, June 20, 2008

I received my prize from the Amazing Race Game. Check out the pics. I got a bunch of Making Memories paper. Love that stuff!!! Can't wait to play with all these Yummy supplies. Thanks Scrapbook Heaven!

Monday, June 16, 2008

OMG!!! I am sooo excited I just checked my email and found out that I am the Featured Scrapbooker of the week at Just your Average Scrapbook Make sure you check it out! Thank you so much Annette I am truly honored to be chosen!

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Happy Father's Day today to all the men in your life!!! I made a card for my husband and then forgot to have the kids sign it. So I had my daughter sign it after he opened it. She signed it beautifully I was standing right next to her thinking who is signing this card because it can't be my 8 year old who comes home from school with barely legible handwriting. Here is the card I made him.

YEAH!!! I won a prize from the online crop I participated in two weekends ago from http://ymbd.blogspot.com/. I got a ton of layouts completed plus won something that is so great!!! I also won one of the monthly challenges for May so I will have two prizes coming.

Monday, June 9, 2008

Happy Birthday Cameron!!! Its hard to believe my baby is 2 already. We got him this 911 vehicle, he loved it and didn't want to get out of it. Which made Tyler very unhappy because he wanted to play in it too. We kept telling Tyler its Cameron's birthday and its his toy. Tyler's b-day is next week he informed us he wants the same toy that Cameron got. Then we had cupcakes and ice cream, perfect. Now I don't have half a cake sitting around tempting me to eat it.

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Here is my take on the sketch from Page plans this week. The supplies were all from the May kit at scrapbook heaven. It was such a fun kit to play with.

I took one of the pages from the mini album from maya road and cut it to use for the title. First I inked it so it wasn't so see thru then I tried to emboss the title but the embossing ink stuck to the whole thing because of the ink to make it darker so I ended up just tracing the title with a slick writer.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Woohoo!!! I'm excited I just found out that 2 of my layouts got picked up for an ezine. You can view the ezine here http://magazineofmemories.blogspot.com/ my layouts are under the let's celebrate summertime heading. Its the first two layouts. Eating my Popsicle and Our Sandbox. its my first ezine I have been in!!

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

I participated in an online crop last weekend at your memories by design, it was tons of fun and i got a lot of LO's completed. The last LO I created for the crop I uploaded with about 5 minutes to spare (it was pop century hotel). However I was so exhausted from it and my brain so fried from creating so many LO's I had to relax for the past two days.

I uploaded just a few of my creations from the crop. The "beauty" LO was make a circle lo. 'pop century hotel' was use at least 6 pics challenge. 'hiding' was a sketch challenge and 'sleeping dog' was use just one close up photo.